Share with the community your Lucid Lynx install/upgrade experience

[Danjatron]

I can only access grub since I've upgraded, which I don't really know how to use. If I allow my computer to boot normally, the screen displays only the wallpaper, and I have no access to files, applications or the terminal. If possible, would someone tell me how downgrade back to 9.10?

[Will4]

I tried a clean install.
I could only get to see the "Try Ubuntu" Desktop but never got to install the Lucid. I can't go further with installation. Just keeps running for ever at the loading ubuntu screen and after about 1 hour just reboots and runs again another "forever".
I have tried to install it ACPI=off, TEXT MODE, and so forth. Also tried by going through "Try Ubuntu" and then Alt+F12 to type ubiquity --no-migration-assistant. But NOTHING, NADA, RIAN.
It is very sad for me as i want to try it. Otherwise i keep working with my Jaunty, very customized and running super well.

[ortichi]

Performed clean install og Lucid 64 bits in a box previously running Hardy 32bits. Formatted drive to ext4.

All went well except a very nasty bug for wireless connection. Main issue is that the connection, previously running @ 10 Mb in Hardy, now can only get 1-2 Mb. Moreover, connection is lost repeatedly and sometimes loading sites is dropped by ANY browser. Tried all the proposed solutions (disabling iPv6, openDNS, etc). Some people are reporting an improvement in this area after latest update, but not in my case.

Unable to find solution so far.

[wavesound]

This is my first upgrade and I did not enjoy it. I have Ubuntu on one HDD and Win7 on another. When I tried to boot the Win7 side, nothing happened. Fortunately, "bcbc" posted a link with instructions to use "testdisk."
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawik...ms:Boot_Sector
That solved my problem.
In the poll, I gave the lowest rating for the upgrade even though I seem to have solved my major and perhaps only problem. I did not enjoy losing one of my systems.

HI
Thought I'd try the upgrade..
Now I'm stuck at the grub rescue prompt!!
I cant even boot my other disk,
I've had to mess with grub before but the rescue thing doesn't seem to accept any commands.
Not impressed at all.

Bob

[Kir_B]

My upgrade went fairly well, with a few exceptions, that I don't think absolute noobies would have known how to deal with.

My first reboot wound up in low graphics mode, which meant that I needed to let Xorg reconfigure it's configuration file. Once that was done and I got to my desktop, I discovered that the upgrade was only partially upgraded. When I fired up the update manager, it told me that I needed to do a partial upgrade, which I then did. It then told me that edubuntu-artwork was causing some problems, resulting in a crash report (I think it told me before the reboot, but I couldn't file the report at that time for some reason), which I then promptly filed. I then went to synaptic to try to remove it, as I really don't need it and don't even know how I ended up having it. I first tried to remove it with no success, then tried to reinstall it, also with no success.???

Next up, was to see if everything I had installed pre-upgrade was still there. Almost everything was still in place with a few very minor exceptions. After finding a few things missing (as I'd expected), I went back to the synaptic to reinstall the missing items, but every time I do an install or uninstall of a package I encounter errors related to the edubuntu-artwork package. I've just tried to uninstall the edubuntu-artwork package again, but to no avail and I just hope they get the fix out soon, as I now know that it's a known bug (Bug #554585).

One of the other issues that I'm facing is every time I log in, I'm given the following message: "Could not apply the stored configuration for monitors. X-server does not support size requested." It doesn't appear to be effecting my currently selected resolution (1280x1024), so it's more of an annoyance than anything else. I'm guessing that this is related to the fact that canonical is trying to push the open source drivers for our nvidia cards on us.

The other problem I (and others) are having, is that I don't have any boot up splash screen. After doing a bit of research, I've found that this is not at all uncommon amongst those of us using the proprietary drivers for our video cards, as the boot up plymouth splash works fine for people not using the proprietary drivers, or those that are using the nouveu drivers (open source). Hopefully they reverse the decision to use a splash that won't work with the proprietary drivers, as I don't think the first impressions are very good for people thinking about escaping the clutches of the monopolistic windoze O.S.. It's not a very attractive boot up process at this point. I know that there is a fix of some sort, but I'm a little reluctant to do it until I see how it works for people in the long run.

[Lia-chan]

Well, I have tried to install Lucid several times in the same new machine. It has finished the installation, for certains values of "install". And those problems I had experimented in Karmic as well.

The LiveCDs don't boot well, the Alternate Install CD doesn't detect my Ethernet card (a card who is on board, connected, and fully functional), and when the installation ends the after reboot land me in command line, no boot splash. I can login, but not start X.
And to think I erased my install of Karmic because of the sound issues and I thought that Lucid would have solved them.

[InfectionZero]

Wow, I had so many concerns with updating to 10.04 as I run a dual boot with Win7. Bravo as I had absolutely no issues and the only thing I needed to fix was the wall paper!

[Rollodog]

I installed from the cd after the install I could not see the desktop, nothing but black. I reinstalled karnic and did the network upgrade. Everything is fine now. But why no graphical desktop after a fresh install.

[JoKeR123]

Installed just fine. Worked for a while, but after installing new updates, restarted the computer, and can't turn it back on. Posted thread but can't find it...

[IdahoBackwoods]

Did an upgrade from 64-bit Karmic 9.10 to 64-bit Lucid 10.04, on a Toshiba P305. So far, everything is working fine except for Flash in Mozilla browsers. For example, YouTube videos don't play.